Arcka
@Arcka@midwest.social
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 4 days ago:
Such a shame that so few people know how to ride a horse these days. You still see them across the countryside and in many cities, but most people choose not to learn.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 weeks ago:
F-Droid works […]
[…]
[…] that’s going to severely limit the potential userbase for that package.
I don’t think most developers who are putting their Open-Source apps on F-Droid have any minimum user threshold.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. I’ve made a day trip to the neighboring state to buy a used car from a CL listing, but I probably wouldn’t travel to the other side of the country for it.
Similarly, for many things I wouldn’t travel more than an hour to get them.
The distance radius really needs to be adjustable per search to be useful outside of densely populated areas.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 4 weeks ago:
It seems like on CL the city labels are mostly for human readable convenience and behind the scenes it’s by distance. You can set a distance from any point:
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 4 weeks ago:
One thing I would find valuable is mechanisms to dissuade the listings with obviously false prices. So many things on CL that aren’t really free or $1.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 4 weeks ago:
My use of eBay is closer to my use of Craigslist instead of being like an auction. I don’t like to wait for the long bidding windows used online. I also don’t like haggling on prices. In this case, people post what they’re selling, and if I decide to buy it a third party payment platform is used to transfer funds.
The differences are that CL is usually items I pick up personally instead of being shipped (but not always), and some CL sellers only accept cash.
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 4 weeks ago:
No it’s Garth, though his last name starts with Al.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 5 weeks ago:
Someone makes a good product and then sells it in a store. Even if they do nothing else and buy no ads, a marketing wank somewhere would apparently want to take credit for the maker’s work.
- Comment on We must not posthumously sanitize Charlie Kirk's hateful life 1 month ago:
tolerance
Can’t tolerate intolerance.
They can and they do.
(Democratic politicians, that is.)
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 1 month ago:
The patent office has long said they’re unable to attract and retain the expertise needed to evaluate novelty in any given field, and so the courts are left to sort it out.
I wonder how could a government agency not have the funding it needs? /s
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
But they are just as directly related.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
It doesn’t matter how these units were originally defined. They have all been redefined as science progressed. As long as you relate the arbitrary unit to a constant it can be translated.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
It might be funny if it were true, but it’s just a sad show of ignorance. It is exactly as possible in one as in the other for obvious reasons. It’s just not as easy to memorize.
To be specific:
- energy required to heat to boiling point 1180 kJ
- energy required to convert to vapor 8420 kJ
- energy required to heat to boiling point and convert to vapor 9600 kJ
- Comment on Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that 1 month ago:
That saying too often gets used as an excuse to not even try moving away from patronizing a harmful business, as though it isn’t worth any inconvenience since we’re screwed no matter what.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 months ago:
But where are the divisions and do other instances of government with separation of these roles divide the power in the same places?
Which powers have to go to the head of state for it to really be considered the head of state in more than just name?
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 months ago:
When having these roles be distinct, aren’t the only pieces intrinsic to the head of state merely ceremonial?
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 months ago:
Many of the founding fathers were against political parties altogether and absolutely anticipated a two party equilibrium.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 3 months ago:
Gladly go back to every site having an animated ‘under construction’ gif.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 3 months ago:
^ Obviously uneducated about the topic.
At least read up on JStark and the FGC-9.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 months ago:
Enabling the ability for purchasers to specify an arbitrary server to connect to would require a design change compared to how most games are recently. That feature used to be standard in the early years of online gaming.
We had online-only multiplayer games in the early 2000s with self-hosted servers supporting over 60 players per map. It’s absolutely possible to do better with today’s tech.
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 3 months ago:
How does that work since lactose isn’t a protein? Is it just that the affected people assumed they were intolerant of lactose, but it was actually the protein?
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 4 months ago:
If this is the ruling which causes you to lose trust that any legal system (not just the US’) aligns with morality, then I have to question where you’ve been all this time.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 4 months ago:
So which cameras can be used to overcome normal face coverings? piped.video/watch?v=yRFeS72IM6M
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 5 months ago:
Alternative reasons (not mutually exclusive):
- The organization has outdated policies that make delivering changes difficult.
- The systems used in development and delivery haven’t been invested in enough to automate repetitive steps, optimize workflow, and increase safety of changes.
Again, complex changes are obviously going to take more time, but if the simplest changes take significant time or effort then something is wrong.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 6 months ago:
They have already censored entire accounts at the request of governments.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 6 months ago:
Decentralized isn’t the right word to use for a system like this.
Even though BS is going to appoint multiple different volunteer moderators (aka “Trusted Verifiers”) for this system, ultimate authority and control are entirely centralized with BS.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 6 months ago:
Check the Tech Ingredients YT channel.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 6 months ago:
Tech Ingredients YT channel made a diy microwave directed energy device to disrupt consumer drones.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 6 months ago:
More like: That could be useful, just not for (perhaps many) drones.
1km isn’t that far - the drones that were used for surveillance of Minneapolis protests in 2020 were around 6km up.
If they needed to get close for some reason, would a 1km deterrent be countered enough by approaching from directly above and using gravity for the last km?
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 6 months ago:
And green lasers
